Not if you're a writer she's not, lol. My friend and I just watch her and think 'carbon copy of Amy and an exceptional MarySue'.

Haha, this is perfect!

I don't really have a problem with the name in theory (I'm not a fan of surnames on girls but they're so rampant that I might as well get used to it) but I do think that Oswin will be very tied to Doctor Who, simply because it was so unheard of as a fn before the character.

ETA: I don't have many other associations with the name, other than it kind of reminds me of Oswald, so then there's OswaldMosley and Oswald the Octopus...